Well go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood when im back in ten minutes. Jessica boyington with the first alert traffic. Good morning, bill. Monitoring an accident still out on route 1 around maple avenue. You can see that in the lower corner of your screen right there. Thats blocking off that off ramp and there are crews out Walking Around and on the scene trying to get it cleaned up and out of the way. Southbound side you can see there is a small delay heading through the area. The stotesbury cup regatta, kelly drive will be closed throughout the weekend. Amtrak suspended from philadelphia to new york city. Dealing with modified service from washington to philadelphia. Check on new Jersey Transit coming up tracy. We have breaking news in the music world. Bb king died last night. He sold millions of records and was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame. He suffered from diabetes and had been in declining health. He was 89 years old. Now to the deadly derailment in philadelphia. Were working to learn more on the investigation and what went wrong. Heres whats new from overnight. The last two rail cars removed from the crash site in Port Richmond are being trucked away from the scene. Well get the first view of the site this morning when sky force 10 launches within the next hour. Crews will transport them from i95 down to bear delaware. Thats where the other cars are being analyzed. Nbc 10 matt delucia is tracking this. Tell us whats new. Reporter vai behind me you can see the spotlights are over the scene trying to illuminate the area. The workers have been out here day and night trying to restore the damaged tracks and removing the rail cars as you mentioned. The ntsb says there were no mechanical issues with the track signals or the tracks themselves. The focus is on the trainee vent recorder, the black box, if you will. Investigators spent the day looking at the front breaks and they did a 3d scan of the two most heavily damaged rail cars before taking them to a secure facility in delaware. Interviews of some of the passengers. The engineer Brandon Bastian has agreed to be interviewed in the next couple of days. Bastian has no recollection of the crash. That interview will be more about getting the engineers side of what happened as opposed to conducting an interrogation. The area meantime as we take another live look it has been released back to amtrak. Investigators say they will be back again next week to conduct what is known as a Sight Distance test. A lot more work to be done. You still see Philadelphia Police are out here. The Philadelphia Fire Department has a truck back there as well. You see all those lights behind me. The amtrak workers have been in and out all morning really trying to work feverishly to get that track repaired so that service can be restored. Its been out now going on three days. Live in Port Richmond matt delucia, nbc 10 news. At 5 04 meantime commuters from washington to new york are feeling the effects of the amtrak shutdown. Chaos in new york city and this shows the crowd in penn station and the Ripple Effect this is having in the northeast corridor. Frustrations are still high on the corridor as they try to navigate all the changes. Katy zachry is live with an update on the rales. Katy. Reporter hi, tracy. We heard from the president of amtrak who says regular service between philadelphia and new york could be restored as early as monday. There is some good news there but unfortunately until then the Ripple Effect continues. Some good news however, from the derailment scene is that crews are making progress out there, from sky force 10 we saw them hauling in new sections of track yesterday. While they do not expect that stretch rail to be restored as i said until monday. Amtrak announced regular service between boston and new york has been fully restored. From philadelphia south to washington, d. C. Trains are still running on a modified schedule. That is expected to be restored also over the weekend hopefully by monday. Septas trenton line is also shut down because it shares rail tracks with amtraks northeast extension. I talked to a septa spokesperson who tells me in the next half hour they will have employees along the west trenton line helping travelers navigate the changes. Coming up in the next hour ill tell you what greyhound is doing to also mitigate these changes for travelers. Reporting live at 30th street station, katy zachry nbc 10 news. Pennsylvania senator bob casey seen touring the crash site on wednesday. Plans to visit victims at Temple University hospital. Just under 1 dozen derailment victims remain at temple. Six in Critical Condition with more surgeries planned. All are expected to recover. Today one of those victims that died in the crash will be remembered. Funeral services will be held on long island for midship midshipman justin zemser. He was one of eight people who died. The eighth was an Italian National visiting the state in the u. S. This is a story that will continue to develop for days weeks and months. You can count on nbc 10 to follow it for you. Have the nbc 10 news app. Youll be one of the first to know every time we get more information on the crash and the investigation into what went wrong. We have new information on a shooting in philadelphia. We learned a man shot last night in olney died of his wounds. The victim was sitting on his front steps on Linton Street when someone shot him in the back. So far the police have not made any arrests. Police are still looking for two more suspects. An indooumt unsealed said the group conspired to commit the robberies, home invasions to get drugs, jewelry, money from their victims. The men are accused of pretending to be police officers. In one robbery of a Center City Jewelry store. During one of the robberies one was shot and others were tortured. The defendants forced two residents to strip naked. They then threatened to kill them. They threatened to sodomize them with guns. They struck one in the head with a shotgun and they poured boiling water on him. Prosecutors say if convicted the men will face lengthy jail sentence joos six Philadelphia Police officers in the clear after being acquitted of corruption charges. Yesterday a federal jury found the officers not guilty on all charges. The six were part of a narcotics undercover squad. They got hugs outside of the courthouse in center city. They were accused of planting evidence roughing people up and lying to win convictions. The officers were suspended without pay. At least one of them says hell try and get reinstated. The push to get the minimum wage increased to 15 got a boost from a city Council Member. According to philly. Com Council Member johnson put a plan in place to raise the minimum wage to 15. Advocates say the vote could support the pay increase. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is defending his decision to scale back payments to the pension system. He said the state cant afford to pay the more than 3 billion that was agreed to during the 2011 pension overhaul. The state Supreme Court is deciding whether the state is obligated to make the payments. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. Nine minutes after 5 00. A nice cool start. A gentle breeze is blowing. The wind will stay light today, but the direction has shifted. There are some changes ahead including some clouds. Right now clear of any rainfall for allentown, northeast philadelphia Atlantic City are in the 50s right now. You can see the high clouds have started to move into the pocono mountains. This is the view from the french manor. A similar scene in philadelphia. More clouds in the afternoon. The clouds are a bit thicker in central and western pennsylvania but no rain with these clouds but this system is producing rain farther north and west and this is going to give us a possibility of showers for our area this weekend, but not today. Neighborhood by neighborhood forecast nice warmup. 70 for mount pocono. Alan town and reading into the upper 70s today. Bright sunshine this afternoon will be peeking through the clouds. 70s for doylestown, trenton and mount holly. At the shore into the 70s for Atlantic City and cape may. 70 degrees for rehoboth beach. Scattered clouds with breaks of sunshine. Drexel hill, 77 while its 75 for westchester and wilmington. Weekend forecast will bring a chance of some showers. Well see it with the seven day when i come back in ten. 5 10 this friday morning. Usually a little more quiet on the 5 00 hour. Lets get a check on your morning commute. Jessica boyington is watching that. Where are youjf first we want to update you on an accident scene on route 1 on maple avenue. Good news there. All crews out of the way there. Out on 95 around girard avenue 13 minutes through the work zone right here. You can see starting to gather a little bit of volume. Still not affecting the drive times as youre headed towards the Center City Area. 42 through way in new jersey, no problems there as well. Northbound from 55 up towards the walt whitman bridge, no problems on the walt whitman bridge as well. Were dealing with a suspension for septa line and new Jersey Transit the Atlantic City rail line has resumed all service this morning. Its 11 minutes past 5 00. Train time line. As our coverage continues nbc 10 is investigating the engine speed mile by mile and how that played a role in the deadly derailment. Leading the lawsuits. We will break down the first claim that was filed less than 48 hours after the crash. A deadly discovery in the u. S. Missing marine helicopter. Thats breaking news next. Were following breaking news from overseas. Nepals army says a rescue helicopter has found a missing marine helicopter. The rescue team found three bodies near the crash site. 6 u. S. Marines and 2 soldiers from nepal were on board when the chopper vanished tuesday on a mission to help quake victims. Now more on the deadly derailment in philadelphia. Well take you through the time line about what we know about the trains speed leading up to the crash. The speed limit leading up to the curve is posted at 80 miles an hour. That limit slows to 50 before the curve. In the minute or so before the crash the amtrak train sped up to 106 miles an hour. Thats when the engineer slammed on the breaks but obviously it was too late. An amtrak worker filed the first lawsuit prior to the crash. Ruth phillips was in one of the rear cars. The ballad cynwyd law office that represents him says he is seeking damages in excess of 150,000. He says amtrak is to blame regardless of what the investigation reveals. We wanted to try to get this in court as soon as possible so that not only can we get this matter resolved hopefully quickly, but so he can go on with his life as well. Amtrak tells us it does not comment on pending litigation. At 5 16 we have new information on a 2013 commuter train crash in new york city. The engineer who fell asleep at the controls will not face criminal charges. The metronorth derailment killed four people. Federal investigators said the engineer dozed off because he suffered from an undiagnosed sleep disorder. The Memorial Day Service this morning. President obama will speak at the ceremony on the lawn of the u. S. Capitol. Hell join thousands to Honor Fallen Police officers. The president met with heads of the Gulf Corporation council at camp david yesterday. President obama spoke about the shared interest between the u. S. Leaders in keeping the gulf region peaceful. At the summit they reaffirmed their commitment to the cooperation of defense and security fields. There was talks of isis and Irans Nuclear deal. At 5 17 the american citizen killed in this weeks attacks in israel Paula Cantore was killed. She earned be a bachelor of science degree in economics from the Wharton School in 1990. We have a traffic advisory for this weekend. If youre driving in philadelphia from 7 00 a. M. To 5 00 p. M. Lincoln drive between wayne avenue and kelley drive will be closed in both directions. Street crews will be doing a series of repair. Drivers can follow the marked detours. Lets find out what else you need to know about as we head into the weekend this friday morning. Nbc 10 traffic reporter Jessica Boyington is in place for us. Hey, jessica. Yeah were out watching the vine street expressway right now. No problems or volume around 24th street. Drive times under 5 minutes headed eastbound or westbound. Westbound towards the schuylkill no problems at well. Drive times eastbound into the Center City Area from the blue route out towards the vine street expressway, a 12 minute trip. No problems 95 heading southbound. Starting to gather a little volume but not affecting the drive times. No problems on the blue route. We are dealing with a road closure through today and this weekend, stotesbury cup regatta is closing do you know some roads. Take the schuylkill expressway to get on by. Amtrak suspended from new york city to philadelphia. We have more drive times coming up. Nbc 10 weather with meteorologist bill henley. Looks like there will be good weather for the stotesbury. There are clouds coming. High clouds have started moving into the area through the area. This is a live view from the nbc 10 studios. Clouds will break for some sunshine this afternoon. Temperatures back into the 70s today. 55 right now in philadelphia with 40s for some of the suburbs and a cooler start in the pocono mountains. You can see the high clouds moving past shawne. You see the reflection in the delaware this morning. You will see sunshine break through the clouds especially this afternoon. No chance of rain today but that changes for tomorrow. You see the showers that are moving into the northwestern portion of ohio valley into michigan. Thats part of the system thats going to be coming together for us over the weekend. Today dry. 1 00 this afternoon, some bright sunshine for our area but well be watching those clouds building in from the west. The first clouds will arrive dry this eke. In fact late this evening, 11 00 tonight, some spotty showers north and west. Overnight we might see a brief shower. First thing tomorrow morning 6 00 in the morning, could be brief showers moving through parts of pennsylvania and into south jersey. We will get some breaks of sunshine. Saturday will be in and out of the clouds but thats 2 00 in the afternoon. You can see some scattered light showers. Its later in the afternoon as the temperatures warm that we could see spotty showers and possibly some thunderstorms as we head into the evening hours. Thats 6 00 in the evening. Storms are a possibility for us saturday evening. Keep an eye on the sky. There will be changes both saturday and sunday. Today wont be the brilliant sunshine we had yesterday but its going to be pretty nice. 70s this afternoon with sunshine and clouds. Nice and comfortable. Humidity low today. Summer like temperatures for saturday and sunday. Scattered mainly afternoon showers and thunderstorms. There could be a few spots on the radar screen saturday morning. Sunday a chance of showers and thunderstorms again. Otherwise partly sunny skies. Not looking for all day rainfall saturday and sunday. A break for the showers. May see them return tuesday. A train tragedy twice in the same spot. All the trains were crashed altogether. As our coverage of this weeks deadly derailment continues, hear from the man who remembers a similar crash decades ago. And preparing for the president. Coming up in our next half hour what you need to know about mr. Obamas upcoming visit to our area. A part of what standardized tests dont measure, very frankly they dont measure the diligence, the potential passion of a student. So its really a measure of how adept you are to working out a problem quickly. But what if youre brilliant and it might take you twenty minutes, but you can figure out something if you were just given time to do it and show real brilliance. Is that a real measure of ability and intelligence . What you can do in one minute on a problem . Get out of here. The deadly amtrak derailment comes more than 70 years as the wreck on the same curved track known as frankford junction. This shows the twisted metal of 16 train cars. Ed mcafee was just 12 years old at the time and ran to the scene to check out the wreck kang. Mcafee says this weeks derailment was an eerie reminder of the wrak that killed 79 passengers. We got up there and i see people laying on the ground dead but the people that lived there come out with blankets and put it on them. Ill never forget all the trains were cracked all up together. The train known as the Congressional Limited was on its way from washington to new york that day. It was one of the fastest passenger trains of its time. With the breaking news weve been covering weve missed a lot of things happening on wall street this week. Landon dowdy with cnbc business news. Tell us what we know as we end this week. The markets appear to be trending higher to close out the week after three straight losing days. Stocks rallies with the s p 500 closing at a record high. Investors appear to be in a buying mood. As for today, look for economic reports on industrial or manufacturing output and consumer sentiment. The dow rising 192 points to 18252. The nasdaq up to 1551. Have a great weekend. You, too. Thank you. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather. Another cool start this morning. Clear skies yesterday. There are some clouds in our future including today. You can see them now that the skies are starting to brighten ahead of sunrise this morning. Just some scattered dry clouds with some sunrise expected this afternoon. What can you expect on the roadways . Jessica boyington is in the first alert traffic center. Good morning, jessica. Good morning, bill. Looking live at route 202 at paoli pike. We are going to check in with amtrak and septa. Reporter im matt delucia. The Investigation Continues and you see the scene behind me. So does the work to repair the tracks. Well have an update coming up after the break. Nbc 10 breaking news. Legendary musician bb king has died. This morning were remembering the life of the king of the blues. Clearing the cars and repairing the rales. Count on nbc 10 for all the overnight developments in the deadly derailment. A cool start to the weekend. Changes are in the forecast. Nbc 10 First Alert Weather Team is tracking showers and much warmer temperatures. Im tracy davidson. Im vai sikahema. It was a little cool coming into work. Lets get to nbc 10 first alert meteorologist bill henley with the days forecast. Bill . Good morning, vai. Another cool start similar to yesterday except we have clouds starting to move into the area after a brilliantly sunny day yesterday. High clouds over center city. Thats a live view from the adventure aquarium. The temperatures 40s and 50s to start with. In the 40s from allentown reading. Trenton down to 49 Degrees Holding at 52 in wilmington. The clouds will be moving through the region. We will get some breaks of su 10 00 this morning, well have sunshine. The weekend different story. Chance youll need your umbrella. Take a look at that when we come back with the future weather. Thats in ten minutes. Right now first alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington is standing by on a friday morning. Good morning, jessica. Hey, bill. Watching a road closure for kelley drive. The stotesbury cup regatta is closing kelley drive. Take the schuylkill expressway to get on by the scene. As we get out to the schuylkill expressway by Spring Garden drive times free and in the clear. Under 12 minutes west and
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